29 Senator
Allison: To ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate—When
will the Minister respond to Senator Allison’s letter of 7 April 2003
concerning orders for the production of documents.

49 Senator
Murray: To ask the Minister representing the Minister for the
Environment and Water Resources—

(1) Is
the Minister, in his capacity as Manager of Government Business in the
Senate, aware of the following statement made by the Minister for Small
Business and Tourism (Mr Hockey) in a Meet the Press interview aired on 14 September 2003: ‘What
I do know is the Labor Party and the Democrats are holding up a vast
amount of legislation that the Government has put in place in the Senate’.

(2) Does
the Minister accept the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of ‘vast’
as ‘immense, huge, very great’.

(3) Can
the Minister: (a) provide a list for the Senate of any bill that could
conceivably be regarded as being held up, as described by Mr Hockey;
and (b) give his reasons for making that judgment.